Gen Z’ers have every reason to feel old before their time. But should 22-year-old Finlay Christie already be getting nostalgic for his lost youth? The latter stages of Christie’s fringe debut find him pining for the simplicities of his standup infancy: he first performed comedy aged six, and has the videos to prove it. Talk about accelerated development: Christie won the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? contest (previous winners: Peter Kay, Lee Mack, Aisling Bea) when just 19, and has since amassed over 100m views on TikTok.
All of which well qualifies him to pronounce on young people today: how they live, and how they are maligned. That’s the stuff of OK Zoomer, which begins by making a droll distinction between boy and man, and proceeds to clarify why Christie has no interest in joining the latter camp.
